Tomato-scalder.



No. 805,632. PATBNTED NOV. 28. 1905. w. L. CLARK & J. L. TERRY.

TOMATO SGALDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28,1904.

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WILLIAM L. CLARK AND JACOB L. TERRY, OF VALE, MARYLAND.

TOMATO-SCALDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 28, 1905.

Application filed November 28, 1904. Serial No. 234.622.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM L. CLARK and JAooB L. TERRY, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Vale, in the county of Harford and Stateof Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTomato-Scalders; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to tomato-scalders;

and the objects of the same are to simplify the construction of devicesof this character and to provide means for raising and lowering thebaskets for containing the tomatoes which will permit said baskets tooccupy substantially the entire space at the upper portion of the tankin order that tomatoes will not fall between the baskets and the innerwall of said tank. v

Another object is to provide means for maintaining the temperature ofthe Water in the tank at substantially a uniform heat even when coldtomatoes are placed therein for scalding.

These and other objects are attained by means of the constructionillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sideelevation of a tomatoscalder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal central section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a transversevertical section of the same.

Referring to the drawings for a more particular description of ourinvention, the nu meral ldenotes a tank for containing hot water. Thistank is designed to contain a comparatively large body of water and isprovided with a pipe or connection 2, from which a supply of hot wateror steam may be injected in the tank at any and all times. Rising abovethe tank is a frame consisting of the side pieces 3 3 and end pieces 4A, this frame being secured to the tank 1 around an opening in the topthereof. Rollers 6 are mounted to freely rotate in bearing-blocks 7.These rollers are protected by means of hoopiron or similar bands 8,wound spirally about the surface of the rollers and secured at theiropposite ends, as at 9.

Chains 10 aresecured near the opposite ends of the rollers by suitablemeans, and at the opposite endsof the chains a rack 11 is secured, uponwhich the wire baskets 12 are adapted to be supported. Sprocket-wheels13 are secured at one end of each roller 6, and a sprocket-chain (0passes around one of said sprocket-wheels and around an idlersprocketwheel 14, journaled to an arm 15, secured to one of the sidepieces of the frame. The sprocket-Wheel upon the other roller isdesigned to engage the sprocket-chain a at the top thereof. A hand-crank16 may be secured to a projecting end of the axle of one of the rollers6.

The operation of our invention is as follows: The wire baskets 12 areintended to occupy substantially the entirespace within the frame orwell of the tank, and the baskets are let down by means of a hand-crankinto the tank before the tomatoes are placed therein. In this Way we canfill the baskets with to matoes without danger of mashing them, as thewater in said baskets forms a soft or yielding surface for the tomatoes.Since the baskets occupy the entire-space in the well or central portionof the tank, tomatoes dropped promiscu'ously into the baskets cannot getbetween the baskets and the inner wall of the well.

Owing to the arrangement of the sprocketchain passing over the idlersprocket-wheel and the arrangement of the outside sprocketwheel on oneof the rollers, the chains which lift the rack and baskets are bothwound outwardly to elevate the rack, and in this way only sufficientspace between the baskets and the end walls of the well is necessary.Owing .to the arrangement of the tank beyond the upper wall of the well,a greater body of water is accessible for use on the tomatoes, and hencewill not be so susceptible to change in temperature by placing coldtomatoes in the well, and we have provided means for injecting boilingWater or steam to maintain the temperature at a comparatively uniformdegree.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details ofconstruction may be resorted to without departing from the principle orsacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described tomato-scalder, con sisting of acovered tank havingacentral opening through its top, an upwardly-extending frame secured tothe top at the margin of the opening and providing a well, a pluralityof wire baskets adapted to be lowered into the or platform secured tothe lower ends of the chains for supporting the baskets, substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set 5 our hands in presence of tWosubscribing" Witnesses.

.WILLIAM L. CLARK. JACOB L. TERRY. \Vitnesses:

J 0s. N. THOMPSON, E. P. BUNYEA.

